主 讲：马肃新

指导教师：赵丽茹

Revision:

Watch out! Bears about!

1.When they went to sleep on the first night, they left the food____.

A. in a tree B. on the ground C. in the tent D. By a stream

2. They put the food in the tree to ____.

A. keep it away from the rubbish B. make it easier to open the bag

C. stop the bears from seeing it D. stop the bears from smelling it

3.You should make lots of noise because bears____.

A. may be afraid of people B. shouldn’t come too close to humans

C. may not know where people are D. can un faster than people

4. The writer tried to go to sleep ,but ____.

A. wanted to see the bears B. wasn’t tried

C. was worried about the bears D. there was too much noise

5. The writer’s blood went cold because he ____.

A. was afraid of noise B. thought the mother bear was coming back

C. liked bears D. felt ill after running so fast

Choose the best answer: B

D

A

C

D

Take a year off !

Choose the best answer:1. These days, ____students in the UK take a gap year.

A. some B. many C. all D. a few

2.Travelling can teach you values such as learning about ______.

A. fights B. money C. jobs D. relationships

3. Working on projects in poorer countries is all about _____ people.

A. helping B. entertaining C. managing D. paying

4.To help poorer people, you have to be prepared____.

A. to live in another country B. to be paid very well

C. to work for free D. to be paid very little

5. University graduates with some work experience often get ____than graduates without experience.

A. more money B. more important jobs

C. more jobs in other countries D. jobs more easily

B

D

A

C

D

阅读理解的方法与技巧How to improve your reading skills?

1 、略读全文，掌握主旨大意

2 、推测词义，注意要点内容

3、寻读

4、复读审核

阅读理解微技能训练

1 、概括文章主旨

2 、理解、获取短文信息

3 、根据上下文猜测词义

4 、对文章情节内容等作出简单的判断推理

• What’s the main idea of the article?

• What’s the best title of the passage?

• What’s the author mainly talking about?

概括文章主旨常见设问句

例题： What are the tallest plants in the world? Many people would say that giant redwood trees of California. Actually, the tallest plants are in the oceans. These are seaweeds that grow almost seven hundred feet tall. ......

1. What’s the topic discussed in the text? (No more than 5 words.)

The tallest plants

解题思路 一、找出主题句（一般在首段或

末段，极少数情况在中间段）

二、若找不出主题句，找出与主题相关的关键词，再添加相关信息。

Exercise: Have you ever heard the saying” If you want a friend, be one”?

Here is how one new teacher made friends with the girls and boys in her class on the first day of school. As the bell rang, she smiled at each girl and boy. Then she said in a quiet voice,” Good morning…”everyone felt that she meant what she said because of her sweet voice and her friendly look.

Which is the best title of the passage?

A. How to Make Friends with the Students

B. What a Good Teacher

C. Teachers and Students

D.A Story about a New Teacher

例题：2 、理解、获取短文信息

One afternoon, Betty and her brother Jack went out to play. Betty was eight, and Jack was ten…

Jack and Betty were _____.

A. twins B. friends

C. sisters D. brother and sister

解题思路一、直接定位法：快速通读全文，根据题干所提供信息直接精确定位答案出处。

二、综合归纳法：根据题干，综合文中提供信息进行归纳，正确选择答案。

Exercise: Tom was ten years old, and he was a very lazy boy. He didn’t like doing any work. He had to go to school of course, but he didn’t study hard there and tried to do as little work as possible.

What kind of boy was Tom?

A. Tom was a clever boy.

B. Tom was a boy who didn’t like to work.

C. Tom was a boy who worked very hard.

D. Tom was a boy who liked to work.

根据上下文内容解释生词、短语词义：常见设问句

• The word “...” in the fourth paragraph probably means...

• The underlined word could best be replaced by...

例题：A tiger is a fierce animal. If you have not a gun in your hand you dare not go near it, or it will eat you.

A. wild

B. kind

C. brave

D. huge

解题思路一、可以根据定义、对比关系、因果关系 、同位关系、同等关系以及构词法知识等猜测词义。

二、更重要的是一定要根据上下文找出与划线词紧密相关的词语或句子进行推敲。

三、扩大词汇储备，扫清划线词周边障碍，争取有效得分。

Exercise:

What does the underlined word “cheat” mean in the passage? A. 聊天 B. 核对 C. 查询 D. 作弊

Mary Bluett, an official, said mobile phone use is a distraction( 分心的事 ) to students during school hours and it also gives teachers so much trouble in their classrooms. Teachers were also saying that sometimes students might use phone messages to cheat during exams.

Different countries have different customs in giving presents.

IN CHINA you must never give a clock to a Chinese person, because the sound of the word for “clock” is similar to the sound for “death” in Chinese. Also , don’t wrap a present in white, black, or blue paper, because these are the colors for funerals. Don’t give a knife, because something sharp can cut a friendship.

IN RUSSIA if we give flowers as a present, we have to give an odd number of them (one, three, five, etc.) because even number (two, four, six, etc.) of flowers are for funerals.

IN GERMANY flowers are a good present to take to your dinner hostess, but don’t take her red roses because it means you are in love with her. Don’t take thirteen of anything because it’s an unlucky number . Don’t take an even number of anything, either. Don’t wrap your present in white, brown, or black paper.

CountryUnlucky number(s)

Unlucky color(s)

China

Russia

Germany

Task 1. Complete the table.

white, black, blue

even numbers

13, even numbers

white, brown,black

Reading practice Ⅰ

1.The writer mainly tells us about ______ in this passage. A. lucky numbers and unlucky numbers B. lucky colors and unlucky colors C. wrapping presents D. giving presents in different countries 2. You may take ________ if you go to a birthday party in

Russia or in Germany.

A. 10 flowers B. 13 flowers C. 9 flowers D. 11 red roses

3.What’s the Chinese meaning for “odd number” and “even number” ?

A. 自然数 B. 奇数和偶数 C. 基本数 D. 幸运数字和不幸运数字

Task 2. Choose the best answer:

1 、 D 主旨概括题。

可用概括归纳法来解，从短文的首句以及文章中出现次数最多的关键词可以概括出本文的主旨大意。

Different countries have different customs in giving presents.

IN CHINA you must never give a clock to a Chinese person, because the sound of the word for “clock” is similar to the sound for “death” in Chinese. Also , don’t wrap a present in white, black, or blue paper, because these are the colors for funerals. Don’t give a knife, because something sharp can cut a friendship.

IN RUSSIA if we give flowers as a present, we have to give an odd number of them (one, three, five, etc.) because even number (two, four, six, etc.) of flowers are for funerals.

IN GERMANY flowers are a good present to take to your dinner hostess, but don’t take her red roses because it means you are in love with her. Don’t take thirteen of anything because it’s an unlucky number . Don’t take an even number of anything, either. Don’t wrap your present in white, brown, or black paper.

2 、 C 获取信息题。

由第三段和第四段可知，在俄罗斯和德国，送花要送奇数。但在德国 13 这个数字不吉利，也不能给女主人送红玫瑰花 , 因为红玫瑰表示你爱上她了。

3 、 B 词义猜测题。

由第三段中的范例可知 odd number 是奇数 ,even number 是偶数。

Different countries have different customs in giving presents.

IN CHINA you must never give a clock to a Chinese person, because the sound of the word for “clock” is similar to the sound for “death” in Chinese. Also , don’t wrap a present in white, black, or blue paper, because these are the colors for funerals. Don’t give a knife, because something sharp can cut a friendship.

IN RUSSIA if we give flowers as a present, we have to give an odd number of them (one, three, five, etc.) because even number (two, four, six, etc.) of flowers are for funerals.

IN GERMANY flowers are a good present to take to your dinner hostess, but don’t take her red roses because it means you are in love with her. Don’t take thirteen of anything because it’s an unlucky number . Don’t take an even number of anything, either. Don’t wrap your present in white, brown, or black paper.

Homework:

Write a composition :

Next Sunday is mother’s birthday, I want to give her a present . …

礼物名称

礼物颜色选择礼物原因